Guide to researching issues in sport history

Students in the “History of Sport” class are working on an analytical video that covers an issue, event, or theme in the history of sport. The topics include:

Racism in sport

Gender inequality in sport

Religion in sport

Political influences in sport

Sexuality in sport

Gambling in sport

Violence in sport

Drug use in sport

Technology in sport

Governance, rule making, and/or player relations in sport

Students may cover the broad topic, or focus on a more narrow topic that is within the scope of their assigned theme. What follows is a list of resources that can help them find some great resources for their annotated bibliographies and video assignments.

ArticlesPlus

This database searches about 70% of all of the content of the entire Ohio University Libraries system.

Use it to search for books, academic articles, magazines, and newspapers that cover your topic.

Note that some of the topics above can be very broad, so you may want to look for additional keyword terms to help narrow the number of search results.

Subject Databases

Note that the databases below are included in ArticlesPlus. Sometimes ArticlesPlus can yield too many results. If you are feeling overwhelmed by the sheer volume of search results, you might try one of the more narrow subject specific databases below. Also, searching for your topic in the different databases below will yield publications from multiple academic disciplines, giving you a much broader perspective.

SportDiscus

SportDiscus contains journals and publications pertaining to all aspects of sport.

Historical Abstracts

Given the international scope of many of the topics, it’s worth looking here to see if your topic might be covered.

A quick tip: All of the subject databases above, and ArticlesPlus, are hosted on the Ebsco platform. You might want to use the “Sign In” feature to create a MyEbscoHost account. This will allow you to save articles and perhaps even share folders with your team.

Copyright & Access

Please note that the majority of resources linked on this site are subscription databases. If you are not a member of the Ohio University Academic Community, you should check with your local library for access or search WorldCat for the database name and find a library near you.

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